A Terrible Glory

A Terrible Glory

By
James Donovan
James Donovan
2008 • 528 pages

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History

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The Opium War
Bobos in Paradise
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
The Federalist Papers
Lady Sings The Blues
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
I Am Malala

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Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places
Hedge Britannia
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
Ten Days in May
Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World
The Isles: A History
The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic

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The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
Aviators, The: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
Becoming Queen

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Biography Memoir

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Jane Austen at Home
Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life
Made in Scotland: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country
Churchill's Bestiary

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Prologue

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C. S. Lewis - A Life
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Becoming Queen
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten
Custer's Trials

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United States

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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year
The imperial cruise
The Monuments Men
The Candy Bombers
Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969
A measureless peril

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15 books

Native Americans

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Last Stand
The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir
Blue highways
Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West
The Blue Tattoo
The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies